Today, we're hearing that the bug in macOS 10.14.6 and later is a lot more extensive than was initially believed. As an example, Doerner said he discovered more than 12,000 JPG files in his own photo library containing this extra unwanted data, resulting in over 20GB of wasted disk space.Įarlier this week we reported on a bug in Apple's macOS Image Capture app ('') that adds empty data to photos when imported from iOS devices, potentially eating up gigabytes of disk storage needlessly. The only app that isn't affected is said to be Apple's Photos app, which uses other undocumented APIs to talk to iOS devices.Įssentially, the pervasive Mac bug causes HEIC files imported from iOS devices and converted to JPG to contain more than 1.5MB of empty data appended to the end of each file, increasing the file size and eating up storage.

The reason is said to be because the bug is located inside Apple's ImageCaptureCore framework, which is a part of macOS that all developers must use to connect to digital cameras. NeoFinder developer Norbert Doerner, who originally discovered the bug, informed MacRumors that the same issue affects nearly all Mac apps that import photos from cameras and iOS devices, including Adobe Lightroom, Affinity Photo, PhaseOne Media Pro, and Apple's legacy iPhoto and Aperture apps.

Earlier this week we reported on a bug in Apple's macOS Image Capture app that adds empty data to photos when imported from iOS devices, potentially eating up gigabytes of disk storage needlessly.

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